With the large focus on X38 we have these days it could be nice to hear what AMD has to counter Intel’s coming high-end chipset. Well you all probably know what it’s called, RD790, and that it sports PCIe 2.0, up to four physical PCIe x16 slots, whereof two have only 8x bandwidth. RD790 supports the coming K10 AM2+ 65nm processors from AMD, also known as Agena (quad-core) and Kuma (dual-core). In stores they will be known as Phenom X4 and X2. RD790 has been used during press events along with a quad-core running at 3.0GHz and three Radeon HD 2900 XTs. Well it seems that we don’t have to wait for long until you can test RD790 yourself as boards are not that far off. DigiTimes namely reports that the first motherboards, which will be from Gigabyte and ASUS, will arrive at the end of this month.
